The Brussels Post, 1917-10-11, Page 6... "......
Cures For Smoking Cars.
"Smoke from the automobile comes
from two sources, burning too much
gasoline and using too much lubricat-
ing oil: usually the latter," says an ex-
pert. "Excessive use of gasoline
comes from faulty carburetor adjust-
ment, or poor design of carburetor or
intake manifold, or keeping the engine
cylinder at too low a temperature, be-
cause of the water being too cold in
the cooling system.
"In the latter case the carburetor
may vaporize the gasoline properly,
but it condenses in the cylinder and
does not burn well, and the part which
is not consumed passes off as black
smoke, which issues from the exhaust
pipe.
"We roust have a certain amount of
oxygen to consume the gasoline en-
tirely. The size of the cylinder limits
the amount of air (from which the
oxygen is taken) which may be taken
in, and if the carburetor is adjusted
to feed too much gasoline there may
not. be enough oxygen present to con-
sume it all. Practically speaking,
what is not consumed forms carbon
or smoke.
"The obvious remedy is to supply
heat to the ingoing air at the mixing
chamber of the carburetor, so that
vaporization will be complete, or ad-
just the carburetor so that no more
gasoline will be fed to the engine than
is required for running. This latter,
of course, is the economical thing to
do.
"A light blue smoke coming from
the exhaust pipe, indicates too much
lubricating oil. This may be due to f
feeding too much oil or to running the ;
engine a great deal with the throttle
nearly closed. In ,order to draw a
charge of gas into the cylinder the
piston travels partly out of the cylin-
der and forms a vacuum. With the I
preignition occurs and the engine
knocks :• The car must then be taken
to a repair shop to have the carbon
burned or scraped out. This is ex-
pensive work, and, besides, *the car is
laid up and one loses its use while the
scraping is being done. The owner
will see that he has been spending a
lot of money to supply gasoline and
oil that he didn't need to use, just to
make smoke and carbon and expense,
and that he is out all around.
"Smoke should not be confused with
steam which issues from the exhaust France on the 17th of August. These
pipe in cold weather. One of the soldiers from across the Atlantic
products of combustion in the gas stormed and took the whole of Hill 70
engine is water, a natural result of the famous in earlier days for one of the
breaking up of a hydrocarbon. This, toughest struggles ever fought by
usually passes off era high tempera- men. Then, as now, the enemy were,
tore as an invisible vapor. In cold in the main, Prussian Guards. Only
weather it condenses immediately it' now they were the veriest cream of
strikes the air, and is visible in theall that is left of the German army,
form of what we call steam. There- I It was not any tea party. The
fore, do not let the policeman take you I Canadian attack covered a front of
in for having a smoking engine when : two and a half miles, extending north
it is only steam issuing from the ex- :from Victor Hugo wood, where the
haust pipe. If he doesn't know whichLens salient begins to outline itself,
it is you probably can convince him and reaching full way on the south to
by the color. If it is white it is Lens itself, embracing the whole of
steam, if it is black it is gasoline two villages, Cite St. Emilie and Cite
smoke, and if it is light blue it is the,Saint Laurent. Something in the last
smoke from the lubricating oil. There - name for a Canadian, through whose
fore, watch your exhaust. land runs the St. Lawrence to the sea.
• A 200 Yard Advance.
THE FUTURE OF THE HORSE. The depth of the advance before me
was perhaps 2000 yards, and the go
The Heavy Horse Will Continue to be and come, the give and take, to be
in Demand For Some Years. compared to naught else than a crack -
As far as the light -legged horse is ing whip in its sinuous lines and
concerned, he is- practically doomed. curves of fighting men.
The ,motor car has takes} 'his place. Most of the Boche neither fought
Although still of some use in court- nor surrendered on their part of the
ship, he will go out of business as soon field when they broke before the
as the self -guiding car .comes on the bayonet onslaught of the Canadians.
market. And as I looked from a height and
For a number of years the heavy witnessed through my glass the guard
h fall i
throttle wide open a high vacuum is
not obtained because a large amount
of gasoline and air is allowed to come'
in and fill the cylinder. The engine is
throttled down by closing the throttle
so that the air cannot get in in such
a large quantity, consequently there is
a decided vacuum in the cylinder on
each intake stroke of the piston.
Heat Mixing Chamber.
This vacuum has a tendency to draw
oil up past the piston into the combus-
tion chamber, where it burns and
forms smoke, That is why, when the
machine is left at the curb with the
engine running for any length of time,
it will often be found to start away
with clouds of smoke issuing from
the exhaust.
"In the same way, when the engine
is running slowly, air passes through
the carburetor so slowly that the gaso-
line is not broken up into very fine
parts, consequently it does not fully'
vaporize and is very easily condensed.'
It forms liquid gasoline in the intake;
pipe or cylinder. This is called 'loading
up' and is responsible for black smoke'
when the machine is started.
"One way of overcoming this is to
supply a larger amount of heat than
usual to the mixing chamber. Most
carburetors are not designed to take,
care of this condition, and the only
remedy would be to stop the engine,
instead of allowing it to run while ;
standing at the curb.
"To overcome smoke from the oil,
which is drawn up past the piston it is;
customary to have a groove turned in
the piston under the lower piston ring,'
with five or six holes drilled in the
groove through the piston. The pis-
ton ring then scrapes the oil from
the cylinder wall into the groove and
back into the crank case through the
piston walls. Tills prevents it from
working tip into the combustion cham-
ber. Many manufacturers do this
on the very new models, and repair
men do it regularly on old models and
new models which do not have it.
"Sometimes the old level will be
found too hig'll. This may be correct-
ed often by lowering the oil troughs,
or by filing off the dip on the bottom
of the connecting rod so that it barely
touches the oil or .touches it with a
narrowed surface.
How to Recognize Steam.
"In addition to the smoke result-
ing from -'too much gasoline or oil
there is a large amount of carbon de-
posited in the cylinder which takes up
space in the combustion chamber and
raises the compression so high that
THE MAPLE LEAF
BOYS AT LOOS
FRENCHMAN'S DESCRIPTION OF.
CANADIAN ATTACK
Prussians Ordered to March on Guns
in Close Formation Against
Terrible Odds.
Shortly after dawn this morning I
saw the Canadians finish up a battle
begun in September, 1916, the battle
of Loos, then only half won and now
entirely so. I have looked upon no-
thing more spectacular in all this
war's work, writes Henri Basin from
was a- reel combination, the fighting,
poilu and the fighting Canadians put-
ting it across,
Toward noon there was a lull. Ap-
par•antly nothing in the way of added
counter-attack would take place for' a
little while. The artillery fire resum-
ed and•great shells passed from be-
hind me for off into German lines.
With my officer escort, I left the ob-
servation post -and went forward to
meet the first of the incoming pris-
oners, The first 'lunch. I saw .com-
prised perhaps fifty men, that met us
in the ruined street of a ruined village, possible, stop this leak, and in order
now but it mere blot of crumbled store to assist in this connection Dr, Wick -
in the landscape. I. noticed that with ware suggests that every breeder pay
perhaps the exception of five, the lot strict attention to the general condi-
I looked upon were a mixture of sea- tions of his flock in order • that any ail.,o.
soned guards and boys of the 1918_, ing birds may be immediately isolated.
class of the 106th Prussian regiment. ,,When anything unusual is rioted in a
P01ILTRY DISEASES..
Responsible for National Loss of Mil-
lions' of Dollars.
Al least fifty per cent, of the ebiok-
ens, ;Young ducks and turkeys and ten
Per cent, of the adult birds die each
year from diseases, many of which aim
prsventalile. Thio 1s an annual nat-
ional lass of probably millions of dol-
la•s that could be avoided to a large
extent,
War conditions matte it imperative
that farmers and poultrymen, as far as
THE END OF
GREATER GERMANY
NOT ALLOWED TO RECOVER HER
LOST COLONIES'
Because She Was Cruel to the Native
Tribes and a Menace to
• Nearby States.
There are two reasons why ,Ger-
many cannot be allowed to retain her
colonies. In the .first place Germany
is a supreme failure as `a, colonizing
Power. She has utterly failed to 'win
I wondered how' they had been mixed"fotiil, it is advisable to place tlie`af- the, confidence and good -will of the
up with the guard. No one will ever fee e}3 individual in separate quarters, 12,000,000 natives who came under her
know, perhaps.
A LOST CATCH, •
Fishing• For Tarpon From a Cantie•.is
Exciting Sport. '
If within a short time recovery dons rule. The rigid, uncomprehending
not take place, it is unwise to destroy temperament of the Germans, their
the fowl without first ascertaining the instinct for bullying those they have
cause of the disorder. The prevalence in theiir power, their insensitiveness to
of diseases• more often the cause of other people's feelings and their pas -
the poultry -k epees failure than is Sion for systematizing everything
No sport offers greater excitement the lack of practical knowledge. The made them from the start quite hope -
than fishing 'for -tarpon from a canoe. extreme importance of keeping the less as governors of African natives.
The six-foot monster may throw his quarters clean; isolation of all ailing There'was no give-and-take about
glistening body high above your head fowls and immediate action in regard them, no power of sympathy,,no ap-
nd plunging down, swamp your frail to finding out the cause cannot be too.. predation that it is the human and
craft; he may tow you it mile or so
strongly impressed upon the poultry-
straight out to sea, where the water man,
is rough, and then break' away, or, When trouble occurs, forward to the
h ft terrific struggle,.he Biological Laboratory, Central Ex-
ou o rni
not the official element that is•.at the
bottom of all tolerable relationships.
Germany is a Bad Neighbor,
per ops after crit i
may give m and allow y t b ' g perimental Farm Ottawa Ont a live And there is another' reason why
him alongside, quivering and exhaust- but sick fowl, or in the absence of. the retinal of the German colonies is
ed. In The Book of the Tarpon, Mr, such, a dead bird. In the interval, out of the question. ' In Africa, in
A. W. Dimodc recounts a thrilling in -
fountains
the quarters, runs, drinking China and in the Pacific, as in Eu-
cident that happened on the Florida fountains and feed dishes to check the' rope, it has been found that Germany
spread of any infectious disease,
Disinfect the' poultry houses by
the author, we put off in the canoe spraying the interior with a limewash
Ger-
ands, anchored where the tarpon had solution (50 lbs. stone lime slaked in for aggressive purposes. The Ger-
T ' « bait trail aft a barrel of water, plus one gallon of a man colonies have been so many
fishing grounds. "-
As the outgoing tide ran low, says
is a bad neighbor. Her first thought
is always to build up a strong military
power. Her next is to use that power
with the tide. It haddriftedscarcely good commercial disinfectant). Fill
fifty feet from the canoe when it was cracks and crevices to destroy\mites,
t lice, etc. If a smaller amount is re -
centers of intiague and unrest. From
them German has tried to atir,up dis-
sensions
is-
caught by a tarpon, wh}ch ran ou sensionsin nearby States. The solider -
captain
hundred feet of line before the quires it may be prepared by adding ity of the white peoples, the comity
captain had the anchor aboard, Then two and a hal pounds of lime to a among the colonizing powers, the
the paddling became fierce. I put a pail of water pus half a teacupful of standards they have grown accustom -
twenty -pound strain on the line and disinfectant, ed to observing In their relations with
accustom -
worked « "ladle of my reel as if it Keep a crop growing in some part one another— these things hive meant
c_u of the yards and one
poultry and nothing to Germany, She was out
for conquest; and her invariable policy
has been, first, to accumulate a stock
of, armaments in each of her colonies,
ad, secondly, to tamper with the
loyalty of the races and tribes in the
neighboring French, British, Chinese
or Belgian Governments. That is
what she has always done in Europe.
That also is what she has done in
Africa.
The whole world recognizes her to -
i g Y tions affecting poultry, which, if left day as an international nuisance and
left hand, I was cutting it free from to themselves, will undoubtedly prove
an international menace. But half of
the tarpon's jaw When, suddenly, the decidedly costly in -the long run.—Ex- he back record that has made her an
open mouth of a monster from be- perimental Farms Note.
corse will be in demand; said Dr. J,
breaking I saw some of them a in a�« �.,_ -••
crops. If the runs are small cover
h barrage fire—they ran into the very had leaped three times 1'r supposed that with" a coating of air -slaked lime and
I had tired it, but it star -ted away di rr «he rims are too large to
e. Rut errors, in an address before thick of it. One becomes accustomed
the Western Canada Irrigation As- to seeing men die,, and -'one takes it as
see presentp. He is keenly in demand at part of the game. I thouglit this as
the time, Prices were never I looked and shuddered a bit- at niy
iso high. After the war is over, there nonchalance. Out, there mothers'
I will be a great demand" for them in
the countries now ravaged by war, tsons were giving, their life blood. illy
I have in my possession an of icia1 , mind went back to the mental impres-
sion it would have made upon me two tarpon jumped several times and made Although these precautions may ap-
publicatioi from the Belgian Govern•g
� ment giving many harrowing details Years ago, and it frightened me. I a final. spurt, but we finally drew the near unnecessary it is 'the only way
Ihad not hardened. I had only seen so canoe beside it. of ^combatting many disease condi-
' as to "bat happened to the Belgian
I horses, The brood mares and foals very often how millions of Tak-n the shank of the hook in m
'running in fields were slaughtered 'men consider honor greater than love
with renewed vigor. g up'
We were being carried toward the dig, plough and cultivate before sow -
breakers and in two minutes were lug. Rape sown in the early part of
sea -
being tossed about by the rough we -
son, the summer, after the breeding
ter, where the rollers from the gulf or early in September, makes a
met the tide from the pass. Here the good crop freshfor tis purpose. Rear all
chicks on soil
being often used as targets by the of life and made no hesitancy of choice
German soldiers. One purebred stat-' between.
lion, valued at $1'0.000, was burned up The Old, Stupid Boche Way.
in his box while the groom and his I saw one thing I had seen before
wife and children were forced on their on the French and again on the British
front and which I expect to see still
again. The Prussian Guard double
counter-attack after repulse, counter -
knees to watch the agonizing death of
the noble animal. Then, the Gerinans
realized that they were making a mis-
take in destroying these valuable
i horses, and began to ship them to
Germany. They sent their experts to
select the best individuals, giving to
the Belgians for payment orders on
the Republic of France, payable at to find Inc north of their own line so commodate the captain. •
Paris. These orders were in German g
exposed to a hell of British fire that "Can't do it without swamping you. -
and were often for the most trifling they could not deploy and were forced Paddle for the beach outside the pass.
sums, to walk on to their death or die in
I have had interviews with repro- I'll hang on here and swim with you." women who paid taxes. Eight years
sentatives of all the large cartage their tracks. They chose the former, I paddled as if for life, with the ago the rights of municipal franchise'
or their goading officers chose for vision of those cruel jaws' closing were extended to all women, and the Expressive of Feelings.
companies in our cities and they say them,;the ancient Prussian thing pure through the living body of the big entire womanhood of -the nation seem -1 What is called the "play"- of expres
that, so far as they have gone in try- and simple. tarpon. I tried to talk cheerfully to ed destined for universal suffrageision depends upon an exceedingly
ing out the motor trucks, they have Under direct fire they kept on,de- European'. war broke; elaborate complex system of muscles
found the horse much more satisfac• the captain to keep the grisly spectre just when the hu p
tory and economical. Whether the de- iereasing in numbers yet keeping still from his mind, but my breath was in 1914. I that go to make, up the human iace.
velopment of the motor truck. which,.on. It was truly magnificent, but wasted, for he did not hear me, and he So smoothly has the feminist move -i These muscles, in turn, are actuated
until comparatively recent years, did horribly suicidal. 1 never saw an ad- remarked to me afterwards: meat progressed that when Strind-1 (responsively to the emotions) by
not receive as much attention as that vane under such a terrific fire. A "I ain't often afraid of sharks, but berg, the novelist, promulgated hiss. nerve trunks with ever o many,
of the passenger car,will be taken up whole body of several thousand.. men I was scared blue that time. I kept short stories entitled "Married," have branches:_
with energy enough to make^it sus was shot down before my eyes. They thinkin' of that tarpon, and every ing been inspired to inveigh against, It is a matter that has been most
ficieng died and did not kill, What is the . time I kicked heould feel the shark "the new women" by - Ibsen's "Doll interestingly studied by applying elec-
horsetly economical to supersede -the life of German soldiers to Prussian behind me. You'd better believe. I House," he became involved in a law- l tricity to the various facial muscles.
horse, I cannot say. The heavy farm militaryprestige, that .rend
p thing was glad when we got among the suit instituted by the State. Thereby the nerves that energise
breakers in the shallow water." Sweden first extended freedom to these muscles are strongly stimulated;
That beast of a shark chased me women in 1866 when the Conservatory and, the face assumes corresponding
round all that night, and the captain of Music in Stockholm was opened to expressions not relating at all eo the
confessed at breakfast that it had bit- them; the universities in 1870. The feelings dr thought of the ".subject."
ten him in two a few times. University, of Stockholm' 'was the .first If the nerves that act to expiress
European university to give a woman hilarity are touched by a pair of elec-
Dickie's Deduction, a professor's chair, Women were ad- trodes, instantly, by a response of the
Bees, in addition to- A teacher asked her class to write mitted to dentistry in 1861 and to the muscles, the man will assume the look
an essay on London. She was_sur- telegraph and postal service two years et laughter, though in reality he may
1 theth h Everyh of ground 1 later. In 1870 they were permitted to feel` perfectly grave. By touching
life. tack remained in Canadian hands, plus 1 we here in America have been int- grief st
There are 350 species of parrots. some more that was found to be a
cl.iefly confined to the warm parts of mass of tangled wire defenses thickly
Ameri9a, Asia, Africa and Australia. strewn croon a
There is none in 'Europe and none in
Asia west of the Indies; and while
numerous in the Malay archipelago,
they are wanting in China, Cochin
China and the Philippine Islands. The
only species native to the United
States is the Carolina parrot.
neath the canoe slipped over the body
of the fish, and, closing; cut it in two.
I°threw myself backward and nearly, THE BALLOT IN SWEDEN.
fell from the canoe, which took in gal-
•
lons of water. In our attempts to bal- First Nation of the Earth to Grant
ance the cockleshell we made it careen Universal Suffrage.
attack in the old stupid, arrogant so far that the captain went over -
Their efforts were mag- board. A moment later he was swim- Sweden was fust among all the na- is permitted to enact a role she has
Boche way ming with one hand on the gunwale, tions of the earth to discern the ape not merely bungled but disgraced.
nificent, but surely not war as war is .Climb aboard, quickl" I shouted, proach of universal suffrage. Certain Greater Germany must be ended once
fought in these days. They marched thinking of the great shark that had communal franchise rights have been and for all;
out as on parade, m column of fours, room enough left in its stomach to ac- enjoyed by the women of this Far -
North country for more than a hun-
dred years. 1562 Sweden gave the
full vote to those of her unmeiiied
enemyof the human race is left out,
of the reckoning unless her actions and
the spirit of her rule in her oversea
possessions are noted and studied. It
is the universal conviction of all who
have had experience of her as a
colonizing power that peace and
security cannot be had so long as she
LXLCGHING BY ELECTRICITY.
Countenance of Intelligent Person is
tractor is a tiling of the past. The
light farm tractor has come in to stay.
So far as the horse business is con-
cerned, a man can continue to breed
heavy horses without any risk of
market failure for at least ten or fif-
teen years to come,
fading into a past?
'Victorious Canadians.
Suddenly they broke the second
time. And almost instantly the British
artillery fire slowed down and out
sprang the men from Canada. They
carried everything before them, The
i their honeyguard,that which was left of it, wilted
gathering, are useful as pollenizers like a flower. And Canada went right
and almost indispensable to con- roug int prised to read the following in one at-
tinuance of a large percentage ofplant threatened in the Boche counter -at- tape up the study of medicine, Whilen., other nerves he can be made to 00
g p tempt: _ - riclken or horrified. -
"Tire potpie of London are noted for
their stupidity." I pressed with the new and varied activ- 1 As man has developed, his .face has
The young author was asked how ho ities of women of late years, all these become more mobile. It is vividly de -
things have been done by the women-seriptive of whatever he feels. The
savage has no such play of expression
as the civilized human being. Every-
body recognizes an expressive face as
indicating intelligence. The counten-
ance of a stupid person is relatively
expressionless; that of an imbecile is,
as we say, "blank." ,
with G dead bodies, All got that idea,
"Please, miss," was_ the reply, `qt of Sweden for Many years.
says in the textbook the population of
along a line as far as the eye could
reach the fight went on; far to the left
I could just make out the blue of the
poilu's uniform, for a certain French
army was fighting in unison. I saw
them advance, and I knew what they
could and would do. Here, I thought,
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London is very dense." I "Say, another, what keeps us from
falling off the earth when were upside
The running ofa gas engine may down?" "Why, the law of gravity,"
often be improved by cleaning it out `But bow did we 'stay onbeforethe
with gasoline. law was passed?"�
tasva
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"THE LAST CALL"
TO TWO BRAVE MEN
SOME TOUCHING STORIES OF
THE WORLD WAR. '
,r
An -Irish Chaplain and a Famous
Highland Soldier Both Answered
"The Last Call,"
He was the best -loved padre on the
western front—a fearless man who
scorned bullets, and whose life was
given over to ministering to the fall-'
en, writes an Englishwoman. When
the men -went out into No -Man's -Land
on that deadly business known as an
"advance," he went, too. No one could
hold him back. •
"Mother o' God, 'tis be that leads
the charmed lifel" said the -regiment
of Irish Guards among whom he work-
ed. And indeed his was 4 charmed
life.
Hail of shrapnel, patter of machine-
gun bullets, thunder of howitzers and
heavies—none of these mattered in
the least to him. He escaped death by
a miracle—a hundred times.. All over
the world, on many a field of battle,
for many long years he had been ".
'known and honored. And it was on
the battlefield that he fell at last, mor-
tally wounded. He was bending over
the body of an Irish guardsman, band-
aging his wounds and cheering him.
A thud, a sudden choking sound in the
throat, and "That's my last call,"
breathed Father Simon Knapp as he
fell forward. He died within a few
minutes.
"Sure we'll never have another
padre his equal," said an Irish guards-
man, who told me of the impressive
funeral at the front wheri�Lord de
Vesci, adjutant of the regiment, laid
the decoration of the Distinguished
Servide Order on his coffin.
It was in London, in Kensington,
that I attended the solemn, requiem
sung for this great-souled padre. A
party of Irish Guards were present
and formed a guard of honor, with
arms reversed.
And the wives and mothers and sis-
ters of. soldiers he had helped were
there, weeping the loss of a very
brave and noble man. The church'
was crowded.
"But 'twas the service on the battle-
field that was more wonderful than
thjs,r'-'I heard a soldier whisper, "and
'twas on the battlefield the padre was
wishin' his last call would come. 'For,
boys,' he would say, `I'd like to die
alongside ye, fightin' to the end: "
The Wooden Cross.
It was in a remote part o� f - the
Highlands of Scotland not very long
ago that I came :across a little grave-
yard, most of whose age -worn tomb-
stones dated back to the fifteenth cen-
tury. 'M
Several of the inscriptions were
poetical and crude—as used to be the
fashion a hundred or so odd years ago,
The faults of the departed, as -well as
the virtues, were set forth for all the
world to read. Here one could learn
that bad temper and spitefulness had
been the leading characteristics of
the oceupant:of one grave, while near-
by a paragon of perfection lay,
"mourned and lamented by all- who
knew him,"
But the small cross that caught my
eye was of simple wood, enol very new.
It somehow seemed strangely Out of
place in that old-world graveyard, so.
I crossed over to read the inscription.
It was scrawled in pencil, roughly:
"The last Call."
Below was the name of a very fam-
•dus soldier of a Highland regiment, a
main who had won' every decoration
for gallantry that it is possible to
For a moment I wondered that such
a gallant and famous soldier should
lie in such a simple grave, with only
a wooden cross to mark it.
And then I remembered the story of
his little Highland mother, who had
come all the way to France, just tp
bring his body home for burial. Site
was far too proud to accept a penny
for expenses, too jealous that any one
else might want to share the honor of
burying him. So she herself had erect-'
eel the little cross and inscribtid-'the
words on it.
A wreath of while heather lay on
the grass above the grave. And the
rain and the damp had blurred the
writing on- the cross—or perhaps it
was the mother's tears, Who knows?
And as I drewenearer 1 read some
words written in much smeller writ-
ing below "The Last Call." `
They. were: "He answered it brave-
ly, and as a .soldier."
SELELT SEED CORN NOW
Now 1 the tittle to prepare fm• the
selection of the seed corn, The world
is crying for increased grain produc-
tion. One of the least expensive and
easiest ways to help increase produc-
tion is by the planting or sowing of
file very best quality of seed. Before
eiTtting edinnienees is the best time to
select the ears of corn for -seed, .
Go into the dell with a bag, cerci•
from the strong sturdy hills with
large perfect ear's 'hoose the best.
Select more than you will require to
plant your crop next. year, Before
piazatrng time a second selection ear
be made of the very choicest of the
Mira already gathered, ' After being
gathered, they should bn carefully and
thoroughly dried and' stored in a Ory
piece. Plan now to Pleat lir this mari-
her and to have a proper plate•in
whlsb to store lbs aped,